Sunday, February 24, 2008

So I got out to a 2000 point tournament at DL today and had a nice time. I decided to tone down my usual tournament Eldar list for this one, so switched out the Harlequins to the old Banshees and switched out the second bike Farseer for a laser lance Autarch, which I hadn't used before. Lets run it down.

Round 1 v. Sam's Chaos

Round one was against Sam, I had seen and talked to him a few times but we had not actually played before. His army is really cool as he has recasted every piece in bronze (his Land Raider is like eight pounds). I fortunately got a board with a whole lot of terrain on it and limited his shots a whole lot (he certainly had alot of firepower). The mission was recon, which gave me a real advantage. I flanked around the large piece of central terrain and slammed into his forces. The Fire Dragon/ Lancetarch combo saw off his Land Raider with Terminator squad, and bladestorm/doom did most of the rest. He did manage to destroy or immobilze four of my five skimmers, but I had too many scoring units in his zone for it to make a difference.

Result: Crushing Victory for me (17)

Round 2 v. Mike's Dark Angels

This was a great game, I definately don't get to play against Mike enough, and its a shame for him it happened to be against this army. The mission was Seek and Destroy. I came into the game a bit worried because he had quite a few shots and there was very little area terrain on the board. I was able to get the most out of what was there. Mike did the smart thing and refused flanked me, but I was able to find a chink and just dove right in. Mike got unk=lucky with his psychic hood and my Farseer was throwing his powers around with impunity. A doom/ bladestorm combo finished off his Deathwing assault before it could do anything and my Fire Dragons claimed their second Land Raider of the day.

Result: Victorious Slaughter (20+17)

Round 3 v. Nick's Eldar

Round three was Take and Hold. I missed a pic. Nick was rocking a classic Ulthwe force with Eldrad, the Avatar, a solid core of Guardians, some Wraithguard, Avengers, Dragons, Reapers, and a pair of Falcons. He rolled good against my holo-fields, I rolled bad against his. Nuf' said. The highlight of the game was doing three wounds to the Avatar with Mind War.

Result: Solid Loss (20+17+7)27/30 Painting30/30 Sportsmanship

All in all good for second place. I picked up a few things for my Penal Legion and some Warp Spiders to spice up my Eldar.

Sunday, February 17, 2008

Convict Colonel CashCharges: Murdered his family at the age of eight. Multiple homicides upon Methalor.

So much to my own shagrin I have decided to work on two armies at the same time. The Tyranids are numerous and the colour-scheme takes its toll, so I decided to slowly work on these guys aswell. The list I made looks like a lot of fun I think.

Battles of the Lamenters

Far from the congested queues of pilgrims, a billion serried ranks of scribes and lexmechanics toil in the depths of Terra, locked in enormous, candle-lit scriptoria, gathering numbers and records of a thousand years ago, whose purpose and meaning has long been forgotten. Archives the size of continents delve deep underground in gloomy wings, their floors dusty with antiquity, sprawling with stacks of parchents, scrolls and data crystals that, in all likelihood, no one will ever read.

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